Originally Posted By: edyvw
Originally Posted By: 4WD
Originally Posted By: edyvw
Originally Posted By: PiperOne
Roger, Valvoline has a 229.51 approved product...I used it when I had a 3.0 diesel Sprinter in the fleet. It tested better in UOA better than the Mobil approved product available at the time (ESP-M).Look on the second page of this PDS and you will see 29.51 and .52 product. Any NAPA or Valvoline distributor in Canada can get this oil. Just make sure they order the MST variant. I ran the 5w40 and never had issues in the cold or heat...it was a pretty decent oil.
Valvoline PI Sheet
To be sure...I'd call Valvoline's 1-800 number...they are nice folks...and get the exact part number so some dummy at NAPA doesn't get you the wrong stuff. It used to be VAL996 but that was the old SynPower branding...likely changed.
I used Valvoline 5W40 MST. It is great product but not on par with Mobil1 5W30 ESP.
MST has sulfated ash at 0.76 while M1 ESP is at 0.6. M1 ESP has NOACK at 5.6% while Valvoline is at 10%.
DO not get me wrong, MST is great thing (I still have 9 quarts on shelf that I will use this summer) but not on par with this ESP. ESP-M is different oil.
Talking to an elderly driver last night at airport (glad he spoke good English = Greek looks/sounds, uh Greek to me) ... he had some M1 0w40 in trunk … 1.2 million Km using that oil in 2007 MB diesel (original motor)… said it burns a little but it’s entitled to at this stage
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2007 was able to run on M1 0W40.
2009 and after must use 229.51. and we in the U.S> never had ESP version of 0W40 until apparently this year.
So that’s around 745k miles and counting … lives in the city …